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The document reflects on the historical progression of mental health care over the past 180 years, highlighting the persistent stigma and barriers that still exist today. It discusses the horrific treatment conditions in asylums and emphasizes the importance of reducing stigma and integrating individuals with mental health issues into society. Additionally, the author values learning to decipher the DSM as crucial for their career in understanding and diagnosing mental illnesses.

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Assignment MHDD 160

The document reflects on the historical progression of mental health care over the past 180 years, highlighting the persistent stigma and barriers that still exist today. It discusses the horrific treatment conditions in asylums and emphasizes the importance of reducing stigma and integrating individuals with mental health issues into society. Additionally, the author values learning to decipher the DSM as crucial for their career in understanding and diagnosing mental illnesses.

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For me , it is fascinating to see the progression of the psychological study

revolution.
Over 180 years ago, in the 1840’s, the first mentions of “mental hygiene”, in the English language
In that time organizations,
congress ’, societies, commissions, associations, federations, and committees
have developed to improve mental health care after Clifford Beers exposed
the torrid conditions and treatment in asylums. What really stands out to me
is that over the last 180 years the obstacles and barriers to mental health
care have remained the same.
Some treatments have improved however, stigma, resource distribution, economic inequality, edu
I see the slow but sure tolerance and understanding breaking
through.

Intriguing also is the sheer horror I find in previous treatment and living
conditions of mentally ill people living in institutions. Some were admitted to
the hospital for ailments that were not even mentally related because
society just wanted to hide people with things like epilepsy, dementia,
Alzheimer's, being a pregnant rape victim, or being homosexual.
Conditions were deplorable with overpopulation and filth rampant and little to k
The potential to be shackled, lobotomized,
sterilized, or even exposed to outbreaks makes this barbaric standard
outrageously shocking to me.

I feel like supressing and hiding something such as mental illness only
perpetuates the problem for that individual and the population. Stigma
continues to hinder the progression of mental health care. We have a much
more accepting society than we used to but the ignorance of people toward
the mental health system continues to be an issue. Talk to one person, every
day, that doesn’t look like you. This will lead to a more worldly understanding
of other people. Deinstitutionalizing and integrating those who may have
previously been put in a hospital is necessary to move forward in stigma
reduction. The ignorance and lack of empathy from society is very much
something that continues to be a sore issue. The urge to be involved in the
reduction of stigma is something that will stick with me for a long time to
come.

I always knew that different cultures have their own traditions that make
for the stereotypes we hold of them.

I guess if I had thought about it, I would have translated that over to mental health but learning of the dee

I find this to be significant in the things I’ve learned in this class.


Last, but not least, reading and researching from the DSM is probably the
most beneficial thing to me as far as learning in this class. I bought a copy of
it a year ago and picked it up one time only to put it right back down, not
knowing how to decipher it. Being able to identify symptoms and generate a
diagnosis is detrimental to this field so learning how to decipher the DSM is
astronomically important to my career. To me, when it comes to learning
that is not specific to a particular mental illness and something that I can use
throughout my career, in many situations, reading and understanding the
DSM is priceless.

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